all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this symphony, called The First Four Notes: Beethoven's ...

Surely that’s the way Beethoven would have written a score for a Broadway musical. Even today I’ll often read, for example, a composer’s program note explaining that a new chamber music ...

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Tis the season of the 9th symphonies. It’s occuring at all levels of the classical music world. The Berlin Philharmonic is ...

And then the recorded notes of an orchestra playing Beethoven ... Schiller embedded in his poem, and Beethoven set to music, one line that stands apart from the rest. All those who cannot ...

Beethoven was never again asked to take on any piano virtuoso – his position as Vienna’s supreme piano virtuoso was established. And those four notes – the first bar of Steibelt's music? They became, ...

The bassoons are plucking along with short note, then this oboe is playing ... Next comes third movement, the Adagio. (music) Beethoven writes a gorgeous melody in his third movement.

Biblical study, constitutional law and music all have at least one paradox ... which let great swaths of notes ring out until the piano was coursing with a great muddle of noise; the effect ...

This young Ludwig Van Beethoven would soon impress ... His experience on stage gave him a great sense of how music moves an audience, how certain notes carry in large spaces, how rhythms and ...

all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this symphony, called The First Four Notes: Beethoven's ...